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It's been called the most successful alliance in world history. President Obama and fellow leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, are meeting at an important summit in Chicago this month to discuss the future of the alliance.

NATO troops have now spent a decade in Afghanistan, and more recently, NATO airpower helped to overthrow Moammar Ghaddafi in Libya. But in the face of economic stress, and war-weary publics in the United States and Europe, how will the alliance move forward?

The indictment of the president of Sudan for crimes again humanity has the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the spotlight and it's ratcheted up arguments about the ICC in the court of public opinion. Can the scales of justice balance the pursuit of peace with the need to punish war criminals?